In the countryside of Ibiza, Spain, a pale villa with dramatic lighting ignites the landscape with a note of flamboyance.

For the “Contemporary Tiger” villa near the village of Sant Josep de sa Talaia in Ibiza, Patrice Aaftink and Jean Marc des Bouvrie have applied their wild imagination, in tune with that of the owners, to create a daring, luminous residence. The house was originally built in 2002: a sort of bunker, with very small windows. But the basic structure had great potential.

«We decided to demolish a large portion, changing the whole infrastructure»,

«The goal was to get rid of the feeling of a fort, to give the house a new heart. The owner wanted it to be ready for summer, so we had just seven months. We organized a team of thirty specialists who worked six days a week, round the clock. The two of us lived in a nearby guesthouse».

Jean Marc: «We like “freestyle design” in which space is like an empty page on which to organize our creative impulses and the needs of the client. We follow a sort of aesthetic stream of consciousness, using light and color on white surfaces, favoring free, open spaces in which to insert lots of art. But this “recipe” can be applied only after we have understood the nature of the volumes: they develop the ideas about what the rooms really need. In this phase the relationship with the client becomes crucial».